SHORT AGRICULTURE QUOTES

“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” – John F. Kennedy

“Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of men.” – George Washington

“The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” – Arthur Keith

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Agriculture is the backbone of civilization.” – Sanskrit proverb

“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.” – Will Rogers

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own.” – Samuel Johnson

“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will, in the end, contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Agriculture is the most humane and noble occupation of all.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.” – Edward Gibbon

“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.” – Bernard Baruch

“Agriculture is the sister of industry, the producer of raw materials for it, and the stream that supplies it with the materials.” – Joel Barlow

“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will, in the end, contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.” – George Washington THE RITUAL BOOK QUOTES

“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” – Masanobu Fukuoka

“Agriculture is essentially a protective enterprise because it has to be protected not only from agricultural pests but also from economic and political pests.” – John Boyd Orr

“Farmers are the only professionals that buy retail, sell wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.” – John F. Kennedy

“The wise farmer does not try to substitute machines for people, but to find ways to provide tools that help people to be more productive.” – Harold E. Hughes

“Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.” – Paul Chatfield

“The wealth of a nation lies in the health of its farmers.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Without farmers, civilization itself would not exist.” – Unknown

“Farming is a profession of hope.” – Brian Brett

“Farmers are the backbone of any society, feeding the nation and ensuring a sustainable future.” – Unknown

“Agriculture is not just a gift to the past, but also one of the keys to the future.” – Michelle Obama